BRITISH BRAKES
USED IN SOUTH AMERICA WESTI NG lIOUSI-: A FPA RAT US j Up-to-date apparatus for brakes and signalling, have been dispatched from the Westhinglion.se works at Chippenham, England, to .several of the South American Republics. The installations include the Southern Railways: of Buenos Aires; tho Central Railway, Uruguay; the Northern Railway, Argentina; the Midland Railway, Uruguay: tli.es Central Railway, Brazil; and t lie Trnnsmuliina Railway, Mcndo/a, one of the highest railways in the work!,. The equipment is very light in waight which appeals to engineers bccausc it is all tiro eas;er tcv carry. When the Southern Railway of Buenos Aires, for example, recently adopted Diesel coaches, it was 1 es!imatefd that the weight of six passenger coaches was saved on a total of t()7 of this type.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 303, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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129BRITISH BRAKES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 303, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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